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Military service
Service number:
636787
Age:
32
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Railway Troops
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
May 9, 1885
Elzaver Township, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 7, 1916
Madoc, Ontario
Death:
April 21, 1918
Aire, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 28.
Additional information
Son of John and Hannah Alexander of Queensborough, Ontario. Brother of Isaac Alexander of Queensborough, Ontario and Private John James Alexander, who was killed in action on May 9, 1917 while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Digital gallery of Sapper Robert Alexander
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Sapper Robert Alexander
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 358 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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